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Dozens Feared Dead After Kentucky Storms
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Kentucky

Dozens Feared Dead After Kentucky Storms

Biden tweeted Saturday that he was briefed on the situation and pledged the affected states would “have what they need..."

Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Law to Stand. But Abortion Providers Can Challenge It
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Supreme Court Allows Texas Abortion Law to Stand. But Abortion Providers Can Challenge It

Supreme Court ruled Friday that SB 8, the Texas abortion law, can stand but that abortion providers can challenge it in lower courts

Simone Biles Is TIME's 2021 Athlete of the Year
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Simone Biles Is TIME's 2021 Athlete of the Year

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    Families Separated Under Trump Reunite But Challenges Remain

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    Nobel Winner Dmitry Muratov on the Free Press

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    One Massachusetts Town Could Shape the Future of Tobacco

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    Parents of School Shooters Rarely Face Charges. This Case Is Different

Coronavirus In-Depth

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  • WHO Probably Won’t Discover COVID-19's Origins
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    WHO Probably Won’t Discover COVID-19's Origins

    What the WHO's new emerging pathogens advisory group, SAGO, group can do—and what it can't

  • COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker
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    COVID-19 Vaccine Tracker

    A guide to the coronavirus vaccination rollout and what you need to know about the authorized vaccines

  • Why, When and How to Test At-Home for COVID-19
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    Why, When and How to Test At-Home for COVID-19

    What experts say about the best way to use at-home COVID-19 testing kits

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    How the World's Most Prevalent COVID-19 Vaccine Is Made

    The German biotech company makes several million doses of vaccines weekly. Here's how they produce it


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Introducing the Best Inventions of 2021
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Introducing the Best Inventions of 2021

Groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter and a little more fun

Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Faces the Supreme Court

Mississippi's Last Abortion Clinic Faces the Supreme Court

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How Ryan Kaji Became the Most Popular 10-Year-Old in the World

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The 46th President

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  • How Biden’s Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill
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    How Biden’s Poor Polling Threatens His Major Social Spending Bill

    Sinking approval ratings coupled with rising inflation may have weakened Biden's negotiating position on the Build Back Better bill

  • How Joe Biden Plans to Rebound From Defeat in Virginia
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    How Joe Biden Plans to Rebound From Defeat in Virginia

    The loss in Virginia and the question of how to respond consumed the President’s conversations with advisers

  • Lawsuit: Biden Administration Foster Program Rejected Woman for Being Gay
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    Lawsuit: Biden Administration Foster Program Rejected Woman for Being Gay

    Kelly Easter wanted to help. Like many Americans, she watched the news in 2020 in dismay at the conditions awaiting unaccompanied migrant children at the U.S.-Mexico border. Easter, a 47-year-old realtor, lives alone in her

  • This Is the White House's Plan to Take on Facebook
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    This Is the White House's Plan to Take on Facebook

    President Joe Biden wants Congress to strengthen antitrust laws, make sure privacy is better protected, and rewrite Section 230


Black Lives Matter and Beyond

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  • What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Has Meant for the Place Where He Lived

    What Ahmaud Arbery’s Death Has Meant for the Place Where He Lived

    The place where Arbery was shot and killed has tried to be different since that 2020 day, but some things are hard to change

  • Bitcoin's Risk and Reward for Black Investors
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    Bitcoin's Risk and Reward for Black Investors

    Why Black Bitcoiners seem certain that crypto represents keys to a car bound for somewhere better

  • Racism in Medical Care Fuels Black Doubts in the System
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    Racism in Medical Care Fuels Black Doubts in the System

    Only about 5% of practicing doctors in the U.S. are Black, and more than 56% are white, a situation that enables racism in hospital care and fuels Black mistrust of the system as COVID-19 and gun violence take a disproportionate toll on communities of color

  • Fani Willis Is at the Center of America's Converging Crises
    Lynsey Weatherspoon for TIME

    Fani Willis Is at the Center of America's Converging Crises

    She's working under the spotlight of two cases that have drawn the nation’s eyes to her office


Money, Innovation & Leadership

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    How American Shoppers Broke the Supply Chain

    The ports are clogged because Americans ordered so many things that there's nowhere to put them.

  • Why Most U.S. Firms Are Staying in China Despite the Crackdown
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    Why Most U.S. Firms Are Staying in China Despite the Crackdown

    Yahoo  and LinkedIn are the latest U.S. businesses pull out of China amid sweeping regulatory crackdowns

  • Whatever Happened to Amazon's Drone Delivery Service?
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    Whatever Happened to Amazon's Drone Delivery Service?

    Amazon’s squadron of delivery drones was supposed to be in full flight by now. And the fall of 2021 would have been an opportune time to have little automated flying machines delivering packages to customers—what

  • Facebook Failed to Remove Islamophobic Content in India
    Photo-illustration by Lon Tweeten for TIME; Getty images

    Facebook Failed to Remove Islamophobic Content in India

    Facebook is aware of the danger and prevalence of the Love Jihad conspiracy theory on its platform but has done little to act on it, according to internal Facebook documents and former employees


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    How to Craft a Healthier Relationship With Your Job

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    Why Abortion Access Is a Workplace Issue

    A reversal of Roe v. Wade is likely to place an outsized burden on workers and, by extension, their employers.

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Personal Finance by NextAdvisor

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    The Future of Cryptocurrency: 5 Experts' Predictions After a “Breakthrough” 2021

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    There's More Time to Repay Student Loans. Here’s How to Take Advantage of This ‘Opportunity’

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    How Investors Can Get In On Crypto Without Actually Buying Any


Climate Is Everything

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    Why It Feels So Hard to Understand What Happened at COP26

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    How Germany's New Government Plans to Be the Greenest One Yet

    "We have a whole roadmap for a post-fossil future based on renewable energy"

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    The Cow That Could Feed the Planet

    Mosa Meat is on a mission to bring sustainable, lab-grown beef to the masses.

  • Vanessa Nakate Wants Climate Justice for Africa
    Mustafah Abdulaziz for TIME

    Vanessa Nakate Wants Climate Justice for Africa

    In October 2019, the Rotary Club of Bugolobi asked me to talk on the environment and climate change. I looked forward to the opportunity. It would be the first time as an activist that I’d


Coronavirus Snapshot

U.S. ▸ Total 14-day Trend
Cases 49,884,587 +65.8%
Deaths 797,179 +68.0%
Global ▸ Total 14-day Trend
Cases 269,728,230 +8.7%
Deaths 5,301,408 +8.4%
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